Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest

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dc.contributor.advisorMakhubu, Nomusa
dc.contributor.authorKilani, Lonwabo
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-28T08:06:21Z
dc.date.available2025-02-28T08:06:21Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-02-27T12:13:56Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating creative interventions that emanate from Black social movements. As such, scholarly frameworks that attempt at interrogating protest interventions do so using pedagogical and ideologies that attempt at including, as forms of representation, art forms that tend to do the work of recognition and acknowledging Black struggles within the current White power structure. This thesis takes on a completely different positionality. Analysing post 1994 Black protests in South Africa, I argue that violent responses to creative Black protest interventions are not the work of misrecognition nor in need of representation within the current framework. Rather, they are a realization of the radical demand for a completely different frame of reference.
dc.identifier.apacitationKilani, L. (2024). <i>Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKilani, Lonwabo. <i>"Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKilani, L. 2024. Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Kilani, Lonwabo AB - This thesis interrogates theoretical and ideological frameworks that structure what we've come to know as protest art. With a specific focus on radical Black protest, it became important to interrogate how the language of protest within the humanities continually falls short of articulating creative interventions that emanate from Black social movements. As such, scholarly frameworks that attempt at interrogating protest interventions do so using pedagogical and ideologies that attempt at including, as forms of representation, art forms that tend to do the work of recognition and acknowledging Black struggles within the current White power structure. This thesis takes on a completely different positionality. Analysing post 1994 Black protests in South Africa, I argue that violent responses to creative Black protest interventions are not the work of misrecognition nor in need of representation within the current framework. Rather, they are a realization of the radical demand for a completely different frame of reference. DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Fine Art LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2024 T1 - Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest TI - Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKilani L. Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41046en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066Eng
dc.publisher.departmentMichaelis School of Fine Art
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectFine Art
dc.titleArt, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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